Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. – NYTimes.com
“Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will [...]

But a culture that doesn’t value it’s librarians doesn’t value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

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Free copyright license upheld Fed Circuit Court of Appeals – Boing Boing
In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory [...]

Tell Congress to rein in DHS travel abuses – Boing Boing
The ACLU has set up a form that makes it easy to tell Congress to overhaul the broken terrorist watch list and to require reasonable suspicion for electronic searches at the border.
With no suspicion and no explanation, the U.S. government can [...]